Category Archives: Publishing

Beware the Menace of … the Man O’ Lantern!

Halloween in Victory City, and Crawley’s Confections is sponsoring the largest and most spectacular holiday costume parade seen in decades. That’s when trouble strikes, and our heroes have to confront a mutant menace of truly monstrous proportions, investigate a mystery from the past, and perhaps change the course of a brilliant young man’s future…all while dealing with a giant jack o’ lantern breathing radioactive fire, of course.

Written and illustrated by Dan Houser, this adventure for Icons Superpowered Roleplaying is suitable for any group of heroes and an ideal themed holiday adventure or anytime opportunity to pit your heroes against a spooky Halloween menace! Available now on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow!

Secret Origins Uncovered

Origins offers additional expanded resources, options, and tools for hero creation for Icons Superpowered Roleplaying, helping you to create the hero you want to play quickly and easily. It includes:

Archetypes! Thirteen ready-to-play hero archetypes, each with six variations, for a total of over a hundred pre-generated characters!

Heroes by the Numbers! An expansion of the optional Creation Point system of hero creation for players who prefer a less random and more structured approach.

Background Generation! A set of random tables for quick generation of character backgrounds, from demographics to past history, important events, and key values.

Specialties & Knacks! A compilation of specialties from the Assembled Edition and other Icons products, along with an expanded selection of optional knacks (from Icons A to Z) to customized characters.

Originsalso offers more on team building, character modeling for free-form hero creation, pre-generated supporting cast characters, and all that you need to create the heroic icon of your dreams! The 92-page sourcebook is available in PDF and print formats (both softcover and hardcover). Buy a print copy and get the PDF for free to download right away!

Can the Golden Age Tarnish…?

The city is honoring the legendary Golden Agents of the Second World War with a new museum, but tragedy casts a shadow over the celebration, and raises disturbing questions about America’s beloved heroes. Have “the sins of the past” come back to haunt them? Your heroes have a chance to find out, and to do something about it!

Sins of the Past is an updated new edition of a much-loved Icons adventure, written by Theron Bretz and illustrated by Dan House, including all-new art, maps, more details about the Golden Agents, plus playtest and design notes from the author, all updated for the Assembled Edition of the game, and now available on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow from Ad Infinitum Adventures!

Ad Infinitum Adventures is proud to announce the release of Rise of the Phalanx, an epic adventure series for Icons Superpowered Roleplaying, taking a group of novice heroes and making them heirs t a noble—and tragic—heroic legacy. Written and illustrated by Dan Houser, the book feature features five complete adventures suitable for hours of game-play, including:

Flight of the Nova-1: When supervillains hijack an experimental space shuttle, it’s up to the heroes to bring it and its crew safely back to Earth.

Cold War Conundrum: A stolen nuclear warhead leads the heroes on a world-wide chase to thwart the schemes of the Arsenal.

The Nemesis Crisis: Heroes and villains are pitted against each other by the Cosmic Justicar with the fate of the Earth in the balance.

The Metaskulk Invasion: An old foe conducts a campaign of misinformation against the heroes, culminating in an alien invasion.

Reign of Chaos: The climatic battle to save the Earth from the master-villain behind it all … Reign!

Rise of the Phalanx also offers a rogues gallery of villains—two complete teams, invading aliens, cosmic beings, and evil masterminds—along with complete write-ups of the original Phalanx team and the opportunity to play them!

Originally released as five stand-alone adventures, this “Giant-Size” Icons product makes the complete 200-page Rise of the Phalanx series available on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow in both electronic and print editions: Just $12 for the PDF edition, $35 for the softcover, and $40 for the hardcover (with the PDF edition included).

I designed The Brothers of Thunder PDF for Icons as a part of a fund-raiser bundle for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Founded by civil rights lawyers in 1971, the SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.

Artist Dan Houser and I created an all-new Icons product, a 7-page PDF on the neo-Nazi group called “The Brothers of Thunder” including background, adventure ideas, stats for their rank-and-file members and the Brothers two super-powered agents, the twins Donner and Blitz! Pit your heroes against the forces of hate and support a great cause in the process!

Now that the fundraiser for the bundle has ended, I’m making the stand-alone Brothers of Thunder PDF available as a pay-what-you-want product, and all profits from it will continue to be donated to the SPLC. Thanks to all of the heroes who offer and will offer their support, and to those who do the heroic work for fighting for real-world justice every day!

Founded by civil rights lawyers in 1971, the SPLC is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.

As part of this bundle, artist Dan Houser and I have created an all-new Icons product, a 7-page PDF on the neo-Nazi group called “The Brothers of Thunder” including background, adventure ideas, stats for their rank-and-file members and the Brothers two super-powered agents, the twins Donner and Blitz! Pit your heroes against the forces of hate and support a great cause in the process!

A Trip to Tropical Terror!

It was supposed to be a relaxing island cruise to get away from it all: the city, crime, would-be conquerors… but the best-laid plans…

When the cruise ship is pulled off course and attacked by strange dinosaur men, the heroes are marooned on an uncharted island and thrust into an ancient conflict between mystical forces. Can they survive the island’s hazards and save the ship’s passengers from the sinister Temple of the Spirit of Fire and overcome The Terror of Tiki Pterodactyl...?

This adventure for Icons Superpowered Roleplaying is suitable for any group of heroes and makes for a fun, off-beat change-of-pace. Give your heroes a “vacation” from the ordinary they won’t soon forget!

The Terror of Tiki Pterodactyl, written and illustrated by Dan “The Man” Houser, is now on-sale and available for download on DriveThruRPG and RPGNow!